The politicians who approved the legislation are heavily invested in Dell and HP stock.

If so many people believe this, why aren't they upset about it? Where are the protests? The marches? etc?

Now all we need is a bazillion immigrant labourers to run around the fields with syringes injecting plants.

Let me know if they ever figure out how to apply this bacteria to seed before planting or spraying after sprouting. Then they'll have something worth talking about.

The key point is cultivated citrus. That isn't to say there aren't wild species and strains which have developed an immunity to the problem. But without investigating those wild species, we're doomed to the naval gazing failure of thinking that which we grow commercially is the only thing that matters for breeding.

Selective breeding of disease-resistant plants instead of monoculture of juice oranges.

There is a world of difference between selective breeding for desired traits and GMO technologies that insert foreign genetics.

"Real" newspapers don't exist already.

So called "news" papers nowadays are 50% "editorial opinion" (i.e. made up bullshit), 25% advertising, 20% "human interest" (i.e. celebrity gossip), and 5% left over for actual content worth reading. The online versions are no better.

"Real" news is dead in North America.

Only an hour? Ah, I remember the good old days of spending an entire day getting the Xconfig files right for one monitor...

Start up Visual Studio. Enable a breakpoint in C/C++.

Insert a CD and start playing it.

Run your program and wait to hit the breakpoint.

Now wait until the CD player skips to the next track.

Guaranteed blue screen.

The US administration enabled laws to allow holding people indefinitely without trial.

Congress and the Senate have made it clear that they don't care about the facts of the case: Snowden is guilty in their eyes.

Snowden would be a fool to leave Russia for some small country. Russia has nukes that will make the US think twice before pulling a "Bin Laden" on him.

The NT kernel was based on VMS in it's core design, which is what matters, not the APIs. VMS APIs were based on FORTRAN interfaces, while NTs were not, so of course they're not "compatible."

The key feature that I remember from my operating system class is that instead of semaphores, NT/VMS were based on the concept of "critical code sections" -- a completely different approach for implementing the locking needed for parallel code.

VMS pre-dated BSD substantially, and NT is basically a rewrite of the VMS kernel.

And your HMO.

After all, that cigarette you snuck is grounds to cancel your policy.

Originally it was a pretty good design, based on the concepts implemented by DEC's VMS system. It only got butchered later by people who didn't know their stuff as well as the original engineers.

Warts and all, Windows owes it's lineage to VMS and the once mighty DEC.

I've heard there are still places running VMS-based hardware.

Point is it's a stupid hangover limitation from the 32-bit CPU era.